Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; 1. Introduction; Background and context; Key themes and concepts; How to use this textbook?; Why study Islamophobia?; What is Islamophobia? Checklist; Key theories in relation to Islamophobia; Key questions; Further reading; References; 2. Understanding Islamophobic hate crime; Introduction; Defining hate crime; Conceptualising Islamophobia; Islamophobia and racism; The racialisation of Muslim identity; Legislation for racially and religiously motivated hate crime; Contemporary Islamophobia

Manifestations of IslamophobiaThe visibility of Muslim identity; 'Trigger' events; Social mobility; Key questions; Further reading; References; 3. Islamophobia online and in the digital world; Introduction; Islamophobia online
a definition; Impacts of online Islamophobia; Challenging and reporting online Islamophobia; Conclusion; Key questions; Further reading; 4. Gendered Islamophobia; Introduction; Colonial understandings of the veil; Contemporary perceptions of the veil; Case study: the lived experiences of Muslim women in niqab; The criminalisation of the niqab in Europe

Islamophobia as a result of the veil banKey questions; Further reading; 5. Islamophobia and perceived Muslim identity; Introduction; Research methods; Urban Islamophobic hate crime and public transport; 'Triggers' of Islamophobic hate crimes; Impacts upon individual victims; Impacts upon wider communities; Reporting incidents, responses and barriers to Islamophobic hate; Key questions; Further reading; References; 6. Using autoethnography for Islamophobic hate crimes; Introduction; What is autoethnography?; Case studies; Advantages, ethical challenges and limitations; Conclusion

Key questionsFurther reading; References; 7. Institutional Islamophobia: policing, profiling, and hate; Introduction; Policing Muslims and Islamophobia; Case study: Project Champion, surveillance, and Islamophobia; Airports and flying whilst Muslim; Islamophobia and the 'war on terror'; Debate: what is a suspect community?; Conclusion; Key questions; Further reading; References; 8. Islamophobia, terrorism, and the media; Introduction; What is 'Othering'?; The moral panic syndrome; The case of a Muslim woman and the Westminster attack; The media is oxygen for the far-right; The Leveson inquiry

Case study: Mohammed Saleem and WoolwichThe term 'Muslim' in the British newspapers following Woolwich; The term 'Muslim' in regional newspapers following Woolwich; British newspapers: the Print Media portrayal of the word 'terrorist' in Woolwich and in the case of Mohammed Saleem; British regional newspapers: use of the word 'terrorist'; British newspapers: use of the word 'terror' in Woolwich, and the Mohammed Saleem case; British newspapers: use of the terms 'Islam' and 'Islamic' to address Woolwich attack; British Muslims in the media; Conclusion; Key questions; Further reading